Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Announcements for Week Ending February 25th, 2007

The next ECW meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 21st at 11:00 AM (not the usual 10 am.) The time change will accommodate members attending the Noon Mass for Ash Wednesday. Mark your calendars and join us. We’d love to have you!

Novel Theology meets again on March 1 at 7 pm at the home of Ron and Bonnie Edwards. The novel is John Irving’s “Hotel New Hampshire”

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“STAYING WITH THE SHIP”

We’ve all read over the past few years about people, parishes and diocese leaving the Episcopal Church. We have even heard statements such as “ the Church is no longer Christian”. What does this mean for those of us who remain loyal to the Episcopal Church?

“Staying With The Ship” is a course that will look at some of the theological conflicts within the Episcopal Church. Each session is 1 1/2 hours in length beginning Friday, February 23 at 10:30 am. We’ll meet at the library or Parish Center, depending on the size of the class. This Lenten course on Fridays will meet throughout the Lenten Season. The course is led by Father Douglas.

THERE ARE SIGN-UP SHEETS LOCATED IN THE BACK OF CHURCH

This Week's Schedule

19 February Mon
7:30 am Morning Prayer
8:00 am Labyrinth Meditation Walk
5:30 pm Low Mass

20 February Tue
7 :30 am Morning Prayer
6:00 pm Shrove Tuesday pancakes – Parish Center

21 February Wed
ASH WEDNESDAY ~ First Day of Lent
10:00 am Labyrinth Walk with Imposition of Ashes
11:00 am ECW Meeting ~ Parish Center
12:10 pm Ash Wednesday Mass
6:00 pm Evening Prayer
7:00 pm Ash Wednesday High Mass

22 February Thu
7:30 am Morning Prayer
7:00 pm Choir Rehearsal - Church
OFFICES CLOSED TODAY

23 February Fri
10:30 am “Staying With The Ship” Fr. Douglas ~ (Library)
12:10 pm Mass for Church Unity
OFFICES CLOSED TODAY

24 February Sat
St. Matthias the Apostle
8:15 am Morning Prayer
8:30 am Low Mass

25 February Sun
The First Sunday of Lent
7:30 am Morning Prayer
8:00 am Mass with Homily
9:00 am Maturing In Faith ~ School Music Room
9:45 am Child Care and Sunday School
10:00 am High Mass with Sermon
5:00 pm Mass With Homily
6:00 pm Evening Prayer

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Announcements for Week Ending February 18th, 2007

The next ECW meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 21st at 11:00 AM (not the usual 10 am.) The time change will accommodate members attending the Noon Mass for Ash Wednesday. Mark your calendars and join us. We’d love to have you!

Novel Theology meets again on March 1 at 7 pm at the home of Ron and Bonnie Edwards. The novel is John Irving’s “Hotel New Hampshire”.

THE ST. BARNABAS GROUP of encouragement for those who have experienced a loss at sometime meets monthly. Next meeting, Monday, February 12 at 11:30 AM, at the City Grill restaurant located at 6464 East Tanque Verde Road. This month please call Lucy Rasmus for reservations.

EPIPHANY GIFTS FOR PRIMAVERA - our treasure chest will be available for those who would like to donate warm clothing, blankets, and sleeping bags to help homeless men, women, and families throughout this season. The Primavera chest will be available through Sunday, February 18th.

CASA MARIA VOLUNTEERS WILL MEET THIS FRIDAY, at 6:30 PM, in the Parish Center to prepare sack lunches. Your help is needed - the volunteers can always use a few extra hands and SHELLED hard-boiled eggs. Join them for fellowship and to help with this good work.

SERVERS NEEDED ~ We are in need of servers for the Sunday 5:00 pm Mass. For more information please call Carol Brandon-298-8021.

PRE-LENTEN POTLUCK FEAST AND HOUSE MASS will take place Saturday, February 17th at 6 PM at the home of Robin Jorstad, with Social Concerns, Episcopal Peace Fellowship and friends. We’re emphasizing the “Social” in “Social Concerns” and “Fellowship” in Peace Fellowship ~ Priest Anglea will introduce some major EPF plans for March as well. Call Robin or e-mail Ila for directions. Please join us!

TRASH PICKUP ALONG MIGRANT ROUTES with Samaritans and friends will take place Saturday, February 17th at 7:30 AM. Assemble at Southside Presbyterian, 317 West 23rd Street (between 9th and 10th avenues.) Bring work gloves, water, personal snacks, money to share gas costs as we carpool to the locations, and most of all a willingness to cherish, learn and serve. Call Ila for details.

“STAYING WITH THE SHIP”

We’ve all read over the past few years about people, parishes and diocese leaving the Episcopal Church. We even heard statements such as “ the church is no longer Christian”. What does this mean for those of us who remain loyal to the Episcopal Church?

“Staying With The Ship” is a course that will look at some of the theological conflicts within the Episcopal Church. Each session is 1 !/2 hours in length beginning Friday, February 23 at 10:30 am. Will meet at the library or Parish Center depending on the size of the class. This Lenten course on Fridays will meet throughout the Lenten Season. The course is lead by Father Douglas.

THERE ARE SIGN-UP SHEETS LOCATED IN THE BACK OF CHURCH

ASH WEDNESDAY IS FEBRUARY 21ST AND IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE FORTY DAY SEASON OF Lent, which ends on the day before Easter. Actually, Ash Wednesday is forty-six days before Easter, but the Sundays in Lent do not count.

The day gets its name from the old custom of marking the forehead with ashes on this day as a sign of penitence. Ashes have always been a symbol of mourning, grief, humiliation and repentance. Old Testament Jews used to wrap themselves in sackcloth and sit in ashes to show how miserable they were over their sins and misfortunes.

In all Roman Catholic churches and many of Episcopal churches the faithful go on Ash Wednesday to the altar to have the priest mark their brows with a small smudge of ashes. As he does so he says to one: “Remember, O man, that thou are dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.”
Those who engage in this ceremony regard it as an appropriate way to begin the year’s most solemn and longest penitential season.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Social Concerns Updates

Regular Social Concerns Meeting Sun. 2-11 (tomorrow), Womble library, after the 10 a.m. Mass. IMPORTANT, because the House Mass / Potluck is to be largely agenda-less, except for followup and for some materials Priest Angela will introduce. If something needs discussion, tomorrow's the time to bring it up. Reports from Parish groups; a look (decision) at what to present to the Vestry re the Fowler Fund; discussion re "Just Coffee" and how to encourage its use at Church functions; anything YOU add. One hour, MAX.

House Mass / Pre-Lenten Potluck Feast / -- 6 p.m. Saturday 2-17, home of Robin Jorstad and George Donaldson -- Social Concerns, friends, EPF folk from other parishes.
We plan to put the "fellowship" in Peace Fellowship and the "Social" in Social Concerns, as we share worship, food, ideas, friendship. Priest Angela Emerson will bring us up-to-date on some national EPF plans for March. EVERYBODY: Please invite one person who has not attended before.

Our potlucks are generally free-for-alls, but we have it on good authority, since this is our last big indulgence before Lent, that Robin is preparing a rich Middle-Eastern leg-of-lamb dish, and Peggy plans her most decadent dessert. If you want to bring something that complements, that's great -- or whatever you like, more of everything (main dish, veggie, dessert, salad, etc). No time? come anyway; there's always enough. Perhaps we'll test William Blake's proverb,<"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." If possible, please RSVP to Ila or Robin (some already have).

OTHER ACTIVITIES
There's an exhausting list from now to the end of February for those involved in Border / Latin America issues. Expect a full list separately. Most immediate:
  • Jenny Neeley of Defenders of Wildlife will talk to Samaritans at their regular meeting Tuesday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m., Southside Presbyterian, 317 W. 23 Street , about border double fencing and roads slated for a wildlife corridor at the Barry Goldwater Bombing Range. This relates to the ongoing e-mail conversation among Nancy Bissell, Keith Hege, and K.C. Hsieh, because the Administration is invoking the "Real ID Act" of 2005 to circumvent ALL environmental or other laws and legal processes that might oppose the project.
  • Urgent for Guatemala Project -- past team members feel we need to be at the Peace Fair February 24, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Reid Park Bandshell. I'll be there, with support from Sarah Roberts (helping also with the Samaritans table). If you are willing to sit our table for an hour or two, please pick a time and let me know.
  • Really important: Sunday February 25, Col. Ann Wright (U.S. Army, ret.) -- "Changing U.S. Policy: Saying No to War and Torture," 6:30 p.m., First Christian Church, 740 E. Speedway (at Euclid). Wright has a long list of credentials (16 years with the diplomatic corps, after finishing 29 years in the military). Resigned in March, 2003, in opposition to the Iraq war. Also participated in a "Close Guantanamo" delegation that traveled to Cuba in January, 2007.
ILA ABERNATHY

Friday, February 09, 2007

Announcements for Week Ending February 11th, 2007

LOOKING AHEAD: The ECW will have a “CASSEROLE BAKE SALE” on Sunday, February 11th, after the 8 AM and 10 AM masses. Ladies bring your favorite casserole to sell and buy another one to take home.

The next ECW meeting will take place on Wednesday, February 21st at 11:00 AM (not the usual 10 am.) The time change will accommodate members attending the Noon Mass for Ash Wednesday. Mark your calendars and join us. We’d love to have you!

Novel Theology meets again on March 1 at 7 pm at the home of Ron and Bonnie Edwards. The novel is John Irving’s “Hotel New Hampshire”.

ALL QUILTERS, KNITTERS AND CROCHETTERS are invited to gather with your craft, this Saturday at 11:00 am in the Parish Center.

THE ST. BARNABAS GROUP of encouragement for those who have experienced a loss at sometime meets monthly. Next meeting, Monday, February 12 at 11:30 AM, at the City Grill restaurant located at 6464 East Tanque Verde Road. This month please call Lucy Rasmus at 519-1918 for reservations at least three days prior to the meeting.

EPIPHANY GIFTS FOR PRIMAVERA - our treasure chest will be available for those who would like to donate warm clothing, blankets, and sleeping bags to help homeless men, women, and families throughout this season. The Primavera chest will be available through Sunday, February 18th.